Re: ssh timeout ?

From: Igor B (igor_bumshteyn@yahoo.com)
Date: 12/30/02 

From: igor_bumshteyn@yahoo.com (Igor B)
Date: 30 Dec 2002 09:03:56 -0800

try portscanssh. it's a little program that checks whether or not port
22 open on the remote machine.
portscanssh -t 5 server

chris@issolutions.co.uk (ChrisC) wrote in message news:<5279ab1.0212260637.1a6a2f8d@posting.google.com>...
> I have compiled ssh on various solaris boxes. I have a processs that
> gets stats from boxes via ssh, however if the remote box is down etc
> or ssh is not running, then when I do ssh <hostname> it hangs forever
> (actually I havent timed it) opposite of other protcols such as ftp
> and telnet, where you get connection closed message quite quickly.
>
> Does anyone know how you put in a timeout threshhold to close the
> connection more quickly ? I am running openssh 3.1 on solaris.
>
> Thanks

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